Oh, and I forgot one important thing. Any sponsor that would disagree with being assigned tickets this way would be able to opt out by adding something like `auto_assign: false` to their sponsor.yaml https://github.com/FrostyX/fedora-sponsors#b-your-personal-config-on-fedorapeopleorg Jakub On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 11:17 PM Jakub Kadlčík <jkadlcik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've set myself a goal to improve the package review process. My first > step was creating https://docs.pagure.org/fedora-sponsors , I am > currently working on https://github.com/FrostyX/fedora-review-service > and contribute to the `fedora-review` tool. I have some ideas about > what to do next, and now I'd like to discuss one of them. > > Currently, we have 31 people waiting to be sponsored > https://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/needsponsor.html > many of them waiting for months. To get to the point of waiting to be > sponsored, all of these people invested their time to learn the basics > of RPM packaging and went through the tedious process of a package > review without quitting. It's not very nice of us to let them wait for > an indefinite amount of time without a reply after all of this. > > I believe there is a technical solution to this problem, so I'd like > to write a script that would: > > - Be run weekly > - Take a small number of active sponsors (say 5 of them, or maybe 10% > of them) and give each of them one of the waiting tickets > - Technically, it would be done by setting NEEDINFO on the ticket > - If a sponsor was already given one ticket, he wouldn't get another > - It could prioritize sponsors who didn't get tickets for the longest > time > - It could consider sponsors' interests > https://docs.pagure.org/fedora-sponsors/interests > > Additionally: > > - If a sponsor is not able or willing to work on a ticket, they could > either set NEEDINFO on another sponsor or just drop themselves. The > ticket would then get a new sponsor next week > - After a month without a response to a NEEDINFO, another sponsor > would be assigned > > We currently have 37 active sponsors and 31 tickets waiting to be > sponsored, so the whole queue should get processed within a couple of > weeks and every sponsor should get only one ticket. After that I have > no idea how often will every sponsor be bothered. Maybe once a year? > > What do you think? Would you be okay with a system like this? > Please forward to sponsors that you know, if there is no strong > disagreement, I'll proceed with the implementation. > > Jakub _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
